Tuesday, August 18th 2020
NVIDIA Might Close the Deal of Arm Acquisition Before Summer Ends
Last time we have reported that the situation with NVIDIA taking over Arm is getting serious, and it was reported that their talks were getting quite advanced. Today, we are getting new information regarding this, from the sources of Evening Standard. According to their information, the deal is supposed to be done by the time summer ends. That puts the timing of the deal very close to the present, so we could expect to see more details very soon. The venture is worth a lot, as Softbank is asking as much as 40 billion GBP, which is around 52.62 billion USD. It also goes to show just how much Arm Ltd. has grown in value from the 31 billion USD number Softbank paid in 2016 to acquire it.
Sources:
Evening Standard, via Hardwareluxx.de
41 Comments on NVIDIA Might Close the Deal of Arm Acquisition Before Summer Ends
Nvidia is already a blight on the dGPU market (please, leave irrational loyalties at the door, any would be self appointed defenders of Nvidia) and by consolidating even more markets under their control, this negative influence will only spread. We've seen this manifest in the GPP debacle and even Nvidia's black box software and the influence they manifest over developers... Giving Nvidia, or any corporation that already wields questionable power and influence, even more will not be beneficial to consumers at all. I can already imagine Nvidia leveraging arm IP "discounts" if customers and clients promise to use their GPU IP in the mobile/smartphone sector... Or internally using the would be profits from arm IP to justify the slight loss of sales volume by increasing dGPU prices higher than they already are... They'll literally have rooms full of people just thinking about ways to screw over the customer for the benefit of their shareholders (and I get that's what they're "supposed" to do, but that doesn't make it any more "right" or lessens the negative impact to consumers).
There's a lot of government entities and the politicians that control them that proclaim to be about "law & order" and "tough on crime", but that never seems to apply when it involves protecting citizens and consumers from crimes and excesses of the business world.
The co-founder of the company described as the jewel in the crown of British tech has said it would be disastrous for it to be sold to a US computing firm that is reportedly negotiating a takeover.
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Just one man's opinion.
Now that's what I would call "industry consolidation"
Nvidia: *buys ARM*
Apple: Sike! I meant RISC-V
Edit: Nah, Apple would milk it just fine. Why close it when it can make a good penny from licensing?
consumer. Customer.Put all the eggs in one basket and we'll be cornered, forever.
1) Competition. This will never get past competition authorities in the EU. It shouldn't in the US either ... but typically they will do what ever they think is best for 'brand USA'.
2) Because of the profound competition implications, it's very unlikely that a consortium of ARM licensees would not bid much higher than NVIDIA could ever afford for either a controlling or blocking interest in ARM.